NOTICES OP NEW BOOKS. 447 



Large portions of the Saunders' collection, including the 

 whole of the Lepidoptera-Heterocera, subsequently found a 

 permanent abiding-place in the Oxford Museum, where many of 

 the type-specimens described by Hope, Westwood, Moore, and 

 other entomologists may likewise be found. 



In the present work, Col. Swinhoe has given us a catalogue 

 of the Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera in the Oxford 

 Museum, these being the insect faunas in which he is specially 

 interested ; and much time and trouble has been given to 

 identifying Walker's types, in addition to which many new 

 species have been described by Col. Swinhoe himself; and 

 upwards of 150 species of Walker's and Swinhoe's are repre- 

 sented on the eight plates. 



The limited extent of the present work allows of very full 

 references being given, not only to descriptions, but also to lists 

 of species ; and the book concludes with a good index. It will 

 be of great use to lepidopterists, especially those residing abroad, 

 on account of the identifications of Walker's species, which con- 

 tinental entomologists have always shown a disposition to ignore, 

 not because his work as a whole was so unsatisfactory as they 

 supposed, but because they cannot check it by comparison with 

 his types (many of which are still unfigured) without the trouble 

 and expense of a journey to England. 



As we have said, the Bornean types are the most important, 

 in the Oxford Museum ; but the collection likewise contains 

 many typical specimens from other parts of the world, besides 

 those treated of in the present volume. It is to be hoped that 

 the authorities will not content themselves with completing the 

 present series of volumes on Eastern and Australian moths, but 

 will afterwards publish an equally complete resume of their 

 unfigured types from Africa and America. 



Les Coquilles Marines des Cotes de France, Descriptions des 

 families, genres, et especes, par Arnauld Locard, Vice- 

 President de la Societe Malacologique de France. Roy. 

 8vo, pp. 384, avec 348 figures. Paris : Bailliere et Fils. 

 1892. 



This is the third and last volume of a comprehensive work 

 designed to bring together from existing general and local cata- 



